NASA INGENUITY HELICOPTER – UPSC Daily Important Topic | 7 October 2021

UPSC Daily Important Topic | 7 October 2021

NASA INGENUITY HELICOPTER

NASA successfully flew its tiny helicopter Ingenuity on Mars, the first powered flight on another planet.

ABOUT INGENUITY

Ingenuity’s goal is to demonstrate its technology works, and it won’t contribute to Perserance’s science goals.

ABOUT PERSEVERANCE

Launched on July of 2020.
A key objective for a perseverance mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life.
The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and post-climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.
Perseverance is fueled by the electrical power heat of plutonium’s radioactive decay.
Perseverance will carry a unique instrument MOXIE or Mars oxygen ISRU Experiment; which for the first time will manufacture molecular oxygen on Mars using carbon dioxide.
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